Ball caddy

• US 4,798,319 A
• Filed: 09/25/1987
• Issued: 01/17/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Virtious James Jr
• Original Assignee: Virtious James Jr
• Inventors: James, Virtious Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Petrik, Robert
• Application Number:
  US07/101,268
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 224/918, 224/919, 224/252, 224/253, 224/251, 224/242, 224/196, 224/235, 221/185, 220/305, 220/229, 206/315.9
• US Class Current: 224/251
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 47/001 Ball holders attached to the player's body golfing accessories, e.g. holders A63B57/20
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/919 Ball carrier

Abstract

A portable ball caddy is set forth wherein a vertically oriented magazine tube is securable about the body of a user by a plurality of belts. The magazine is secured to the belts and is opaque except for an indicator slot formed therein to exhibit of the presence of balls therein. A spring loaded platform biases the balls towards an overlying exit formed of a flexible membrane of a memory retentent material. An opening is formed in the membrane of a diameter less than the diameter of the magazine tube and of the balls positionable therein. Formed on at least one diameter of said opening is an access relief enabling a user to position a finger therethrough for grasping of a ball adjacent the membrane thereunder.

Claims

1. A ball magazine apparatus including means for attachment to an individual utilizing said apparatus comprising,

a tubular magazine means including a closed first end and an open second end to define an exit opening, for housing a plurality of balls, and

a biasing means for directing said balls towards an exit opening with a tubular magazine means, and

resilient opening means positioned over said exit opening for enabling manual sequential grasping of said ball through said resilient opening means enabling removal of said balls from said magazine means, and

said resilient opening means including a flexible membrane sheet securable over said exit opening,

said membrane sheet formed with a central circular opening including a plurality of diametrically opposed relief opening for acceptance of an individual'"'"'s fingers therethrough for grasping of an uppermost ball in said magazine means,

the width of the opening defined by said relief openings and said central opening being less than that of said exit opening, and

said biasing means includes a rigid planar elevator plate means positioned over said biasing means for upwardly biasing said balls to said exit opening, and

said biasing means is captured between said first end and said elevator plate means, and

wherein said means for attachment includes spaced integral loops secured to said tubular magazine means for acceptance of spaced belt means therethrough for securement about said individual, and

wherein said central circular opening is of a diameter substantially less than that of said tubular magazine means, and

wherein an indicator relief opening is axially oriented within a wall of said tubular magazine means for visual indication of the presence or absence of balls within said magazine means.